Cast Gallery catalogue number: B082

Head of a goddess made for insertion into a statue, perhaps the cult-statue of a Greek shrine in Sicily or south Italy.

• Plaster cast: Height: 83cm.
• Copy of a marble head.
• The head:
  • is an original of about 480-470 BC, made in Sicily or south Italy.
  • was formerly in the Ludovisi collection.
  • is now in Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, inv. 8598.